A few days ago, the Chinese Football Association announced the results of the competition for the women's football coach, and Australian Milicic became the new coach of the Chinese women's football team. However, less than 24 hours after the news was announced, Ma Dexing, a famous player in domestic football, threw out a powerful remark, in which he questioned the existence of illegal transactions in the process of selecting a coach for the women's football team.
Ma Dexing's questioning is fundamentally different from netizens' complaints, fans just think why they want to choose an unfamiliar foreigner, instead of using a domestic coach or a Japanese coach, everyone supports Chen Wanting, and Ma Dexing's point of view is more important, he directly said that Li Tie was arrested and couldn't stop someone from committing a crime driven by interests.
Ma Dexing's doubts are by no means groundless, and the selection of coaches has entered the final three selections, leaving two former Australian women's football coaches Stasic and Milicic, as well as Danish coach Peter Bondi, who once coached the Chinese women's national team for the U20 women's team. Stasic led the Australian women's football team to the quarter-finals of the Rio Olympics in 2016. In 2021, he became the head coach of the Philippine women's national women's football team, leading the underdog to the finals of the 2023 Women's World Cup, and beat hosts New Zealand 1-0 in the group stage. Pete Bondi's advantage is that he knows the Chinese women's football team, and he led the Chinese women's U20 team to the 2018 World Youth Championships, and Zhang Linyan was a disciple of Bondi at that time.
So what is the origin of Milicic, he does not have a glamorous resume, he played against the Chinese women's football team when he was in charge of the Australian women's football team, and in the group stage of the Tokyo Olympic qualifiers, the Australian team scored a stoppage time equalizer to qualify for the play-offs and be able to enter Tokyo. Australia's semi-final run at the Olympics had little to do with Milicic, thanks to Swedish coach Tony Gustafsson.
Regardless of whether Ma Dexing's doubts are selfish or not, there are indeed a few points that the Chinese Football Association has made strategic mistakes in considering the issue. The first is the direction of coach selection, in 2023, the Chinese women's football team has experienced three major battles, in the 9th Women's World Cup, the Hangzhou Asian Games, and the second stage of the Paris Olympic preliminaries, the Chinese women's football team has failed to achieve good results, which has led to the embarrassing fact that the national team has to face an embarrassing fact, that is, there will be no major tournament to play in the next two years, and it will not return to the international stage until the 2026 Asian Cup.
In this case, it is a bit clueless to find a foreign coach, there is no competition test, and the actual combat level cannot be seen, and in 2026, it seems that the Asian Cup will be used to assess the coaching results, but it seems to be a gambling contract, it is better to use local or Asian coaches at this time, because the first thing to face in the next cycle is a few old opponents around, and it is not necessary to find a European coach.
Why is there only one domestic coach among the more than 40 applicants, this is because the selection conditions announced by the Football Association were stuck first, and there was a deviation in the conditions set by Song Kai, Sun Wen and the women's football coach selection group, which caused the registration result of 40 to 1, is this normal? Is it that domestic coaches don't want to be the coach of the Chinese women's football team? There must be a reason, maybe it's because of the money.
There are unspeakable reasons why they set the direction of restricting local managers, in addition to the high-sounding "international vision". The salary of a foreign teacher involves millions of dollars, and there is a lot of room for maneuver here, not only the broker can share the benefits, but also those who are helpful to the results will benefit. On the contrary, the upper limit of the salary of hiring a local coach is hundreds of thousands of yuan, and there is nothing to worry about, so the recruitment conditions are not met by the local coach first, and the core goal is to spend millions of dollars.
Having said that, no matter who you choose now, you are also a transitional figure, there is no competition test, no performance pressure, and it is purely a façade. It is difficult to say whether or not, as the Ma reporter said, some interest groups have begun to commit crimes against the wind again, but the election of such a coach really leads to reverie.